The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
Paymaster Crawford. of the Vandalia, will to-
day pay on the Indianapolis division for January
service.
The roadmaster of the c., H. G. l. is this week
putting In eight miles OF new steel rails, and next
month is to receive ten miles more, which will
lay nearly the entire distance between Indianap-
oils and Hamilton with steel.
Freight agents are complaining bitterly of the
dilatoriness of the coal-dealers at this point in
unloading cars. The belief is growing that the
railroads should have protection in this matter
through good demurrage law.
T. K. Stateler has resigned the position of dis
trict passenger and land agent for the Northern
Pacific road, to take effect March l. He will be
succeeded by A. A. Jack, formerly agent of the
company in st. Louis. Mr.. Jacks office will be
In Des Moines
Superintendent Evan, of the Decline, and
Burrows. of the l. 81 St L., are in Cleveland
comforting about the proposed changes in the
running OF their express trains. It is the inten-
ton to make some of their through trains faster,
doing away with so much accommodation
local work.
The Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Com
pany has purchased from the Barring Brothers
five hundred box cars which were IN service on
the Illinois Midland road. Some are nearly new
while others will need some repairs; but it is
said that the T. r. & /. people secured the lot
at very low figures
The Indianapolis car works working day
anu a night force In tnelr most important de-
parrments, and pushing the building OF cars to
their highest capacity. This month they will
turn out 400 cars, and would do even better, but
the wet weather has been unfavorable to drying
paint, and this delays matters considerably.
Superintendents and roadmasters are sleeping
better, that the liability of broken rails has
decreased with the milder weather. During the
winter Indianapolis roads were remarkably
empt from accidents through broken rails. In
fact. on but road was there accident really
| unrth nKiyfo 6Ak fhn Tr6y lie X
cennes
H. H. Stevens president of the Chic ago &
Eastern Illinois road, headquarters Bost. I, Is
West looking matters over He is said to be
much elated over the come-out of this road.
When he took hold of it he had no idea that the
| stock would ever sell at l09 the present fig
ure While West he will arrange for building
the Tuscola extension spoken of in the Journal
few mornings since.
Said the general manager of leading road
| out of St. Louis ''If the managers of the chi
| cago & Alton road are wise they will undertake
| to build new extensions, but husband their
| local business for couple of years and by that
| time some of the parties who are building rail-
| roads in the Western States with such rapidity
will gladly sell at much less cost than the c. &
| A. can now build extensions.
On Friday the weighing of all package freight
| forwarded from the city freight depots will be
| inaugurated, which is fair for the shipper and
for the road. Some shippers have been in the
| habit of naming their own weights on shipments,
| and it road would not accept their weight they
| would take it to competing line as punish
| ment on the road refusing to take their weight.
| This new deal puts stop to all this business.
The conductors running into Indianapolis
| have prepared a petition, which is being signed
| in their room at the Union Depot asking that in
the new station building there be a bathroom
| provided in connection with room for their use
to be managed by the Railroad Christian Asso-
| citation. Such convenience would be greatly
| appreciated. In the plans there should be gen.
| erous provision for the physical. moral and in
| tellectual wants of conductors, engineers and
| trainmen.
Commissioner Blanchard, acting as Western
| vicechairman OF the joint committee of the
| Eastern trunk lines and the Central Traffic As
ISOLATION, has addressed the following circular
| to the managers of lines in the association and
of ali other roads in its territory: IA meeting of
| the joint committee has been called at the office
of the chairman, No. 346 broadway, New York
at IL o'clock NJ. Wednesday, March 2, for the
consideration of all freight and passen ger es-
tions arising under the interstate cora -aw.
| and to hear the reports OF the various commit
| tees which have been appointed for its consid-
GRAFTON. including the classification committee.
| The freight matters will be considered Wednes-
| day. March 2. and passenger matters Thursday,
| March 3.
| Grain men here are growing that Indianapolis
roads East out of here do not meet the cuts made
| by the Chicago roads on grain rates East We
question. however. if cut on the same basis of
that made by the Chicago roads would move a
kernel more grainl The fact is that the South
ern market is paying SO much better prices that
a ten-cent per-one hundred pound cut East
would hardly pay grain men to ship to
Eastern markets. From all territory contribu.
tory to this market grain is coming in on local
rates and is then shipped South. Even from
points east of here on the line and the l. B.
81 ". grain is coming into Indianapolis to go to
the Southern markets. The shipments Of pro-
vision southwark, we'll. never heavier
than In February of this year. and the presen;
| affairs ia for
weeks to come
President ingalls,, Of the c., l.. st. L. g c.,
when interviewed by a reporter of the Cincin.
natl Times-Star regarding the taxing of the
stock of the "Big Four" on the grounds that
they are a foreign corporation, said: well, il
we are foreign corporation, we who live in
Cincinnati, and have our headquarters here il
we are foreign corporation I guess we Nigh.
| as we'll move out of the city and become one in
reality. We going to build new shops. ou,
I'll be hanged if l think they will be built here
where they will be taxed twice. The people OF
Indianapolis want US to go there. They will
tax our shops there, will they tax my stock
there If we cannot be treated fairly here. we
can at least go where will be treated fairly
: and We may as we'll have our headquarters and
!: | everything else there"
; The turn that the affairs of the Jersey Contra
have taken makes it quite evident that the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company is master Of the
, situation. 1t ls stated that President Garrett
Of the B. & o.. does not acknowledge the result
of his labors for the last two years failure ant
it is hoped in Baltimore that some solution o
4 the problem may yet be reached which will pre-
vent disaster to Baltimore & Ohio interests
The Pennsylvania railroad is likely, however. t.
be pretty stiff with Mr.. -Corbin. 1t is in tn
power of that company to make the anthracite
coal business Improbable, and thus strike Read
ing vital blow. Mr.. Corbin has Recognized
r this since he first came to Philadelphia and ha
accordingly allied himself to the Pennsylvania
1t can be said that the Baltimore & Ohio ca
only go tc New York terms dictated by Mr.
Roberts, of the Pennsylvania, or by building
t new line.
> If the Bee-lne proposes to hold its position a